Starting to download it when only a few hundred thousand people knew about it... at 4k/s was painful but bearable. Start the download, leave and come back to find the slashdot announcement and two broken ftp connections! redhats site (mirrors didnt have it yesterday) is basically/.'d.
bah! slashdot! i would have gotten away with it if it wasnt for you crazy kids!
They already tried this. It was called CDE ( common desktop environment ) maybe you remember it.. sun used to use it until they caught on that if you use a commercial-only available window manager, that open source developers are less likely to write for it. Last i checked wasnt sun moving to KDE?
I like the idea on person had.. to make a barebones distro where the Xserver/Gui model was built into the kernel similar to BeOS and the system automagically booted up to a nice simple graphical shell. One that you could easily build on.
even after cancelling your account, you may often find they "forget" to stop charging you.
in my mind this happens too often to be a coincidence.
be sure to check your statements for at least the next year to make sure they dont decide to sign you up again automatically or to continue your service with information they wont be able to find when you call to dispute the charges.
good for them. Im sure the manufacturers of these p2p softwares that prefer to spy on thier customers or make it a mandatory defect in thier product will surely lash back with the same force that the media companies have done over sharing of thier content.
I may be in the minority, but regardless of the security and method for providing spyware and adware programs, but i will always opt out of any program that includes any such feature.
There will always be an option that does not require a user to install spyware.. as long as there are watchdog groups to keep us informed of these little unhyped "features".
ive been pretty picky about the new music i buy for quite a while now. If this signals a trend tht will continue, I will stop buying cd's altogether. There will always be someone who will be ble to get past the protection and rip the music to mp3.
I dont condone piracy, but I will not be mandated by any company where and when i can listen to my music.
For any of you record exec types, please note. the more ways you find to limit the usability of music media, the more honest non-pirate consumers will switch over to using less than reputable sources.
so before you stat blaming the general population on your financial worries, just remember that you are part of the problem.
The drop in sales also seems to coincide with the slump in the economy. How about them apples.
Im pretty sure that napster and other file sharingb programs had some affect on album sales in the past 2 years..
but lets give credit where credit is due.. if napster is to blame for all the music industries problems, then all my friends in the technology sector who were laid off this year and last should also be able to blame napster..
come on.. get soem sense people.
-LW If electricity comes from electrons... does that mean that morality comes from morons?
the author poses an interesting question. The question in my mind is.. should new users be taught to interact witht he system as an expert user would or using advances in interface technology, teach users only what they need to know to survive in a linux environment.
some would argue that it is better to make sure users understand the underlyuing technology they are dealing with.. and the ability to understand the function at the lower levels.. at least as low as the filesystem for configuration.
does teching them the "right" way noe prevent them from coming back eveyr 10 minutes to troubleshoot things that come up.
should new users or those not wanting to delve too deeply int he system, be guided via graphical systems and interface designed to make performing these operations simpler. will that be all the user ever needs..
very possibly.
I believe the answer to this is depending on the circumstences. I think tht trying to fice a windows user back to a command line is a sure fire way to confuse the poor sod. But i dont think that it is an excuse. those same graphical interface may disappear in the future or take different shape and having to rely that those willalways be there is also a sure sign of failure..
I think learning the graphical interface configuration tools is fine.. justr as once the user is somewhat comnfortable working with the system, they should learn to do things the "right" way..
no sense in scaring them when they are still at that stage where thier level of udnerstanding of the technology may not allow them to completely grasp more advanced concepts.
you must start somewhere..
if you feel differently.. just keep in mind that trigonometry or calculus wasnt your first math class.. after years of arithmatic and algebra, you were at the point where calculus should make sense.
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The problem with snort and almost all other IDS systems is pattern matching.
In other words, every packet that enters the system (detection area, based on whether the detection is network based or host based).
The cause and effect is two fold. A packet with a string contained therein may be detected falsely as an attack can be masked by using unicode or shell code, etc.
the second effect is that since each packet or stream is matched against every pattern in the database, is that the engine is easily bogged down and with some simple techniques, can be made to drop packets in order to not kill itself off.
There is no perfect solution for this that I know of..
however, there are more efficient ways to handle both these problems.
Packet and Stream disassembly can be used to reduce the amount of overhead and greatly reduce the anmount of mis-detections (both false positive and false negative).
First, breaking down the stream to determine protocol, source, destination, payload, etc..
once a stream is broken up, analyzing it for content is much simpler and quicker becuase you dont have to check all the unklreated traffic against all the signatures in the database.. only those which pertain to the specific protocol in use, if any matching is necessary at all.
Now.. this technique can be done right and be done very wrong. do it wrong and youll spend much more time disassembling things and using more resources than the pattern matching engines.
Doing it right means quickly limiting the amount of matching that needs to be done and reducing overhead even in high traffic situations.
Of course, as with any method, there are weaknesses. This method can reduce cpu and memory requirements, increase accuracy and reduce false negatives and false positives.
As another colleague pointed out, IDS is an early warning system. In any of its incarnations, its nearly innefective without escalation and constant monitoring.
absolutely..
check ebay..
IBM AT style ps/2 keyboards.
you can get them very cheap.
I like to have a good stock of them around and use them on all my desktop systems.
nice anc clicky.. never wear out.. will withstand almost any abuse..
Plastic and metal.. very heavy.. very durable.
no wonder you go through so many keyboards..
those $10 keyboards are the worst made pieces of garbage you can get. Theya re not designed to suffer any misuse thus the ridiculous pricetag.
I recommend findin a nice northgate keyboard..
the company is no longer in business but the keyboards are durable and comfortable. Almost as durable as the original IBM AT style keyboards..
the IBM AT style ps/2 keyboards are the most durable, best built keyboard you will find.. I personally have collected a few of these are they are no longer manufactured.. each one, at least 5 year old or older works perfectly..
Now mind you, i am rather nice to my keyboards.. dont spill stuff in them and I clean them out once in a while.. but the keyboards never miss a key.
IF you spill something on these keyboards, you may not even notice.. If you make a real mess.. you can just hose down the keyboard with water.. yes.. you can even put them in the shower.. Just make sure to let them completely dry out before trying to plug them back in.
You can probably pick a handful of them on ebay for under $20 on ebay.. A friend of mine found a stock of 10 of these for that amount and one will outlast all the other keyboards you have ever used. These things are heavy.. metal parts and strong tactile feedback.
I will never get rid of these keyboards..
It just goes to show that IBM CAN make a product that will outlast all its competitors.
Since they are no longer made, I always want to make sure I never run out.
Be cautioned though.. these are the click type keyboards that were a bit more popular in the "80's" and make a fair amount of noise when used.. Thankfully, that is my preference.
Good luck and good keyboarding...
Multics was a behemoth of a system. the name unix was at least in part derived from multics as somewhat of a joke.
As multics was a large bloated behemoth, unix (eunuchs) was intended for smaller networks (at the time)
I think that nobody knew how much of an impact unix would have when it was being initially being developed in a forgotten lab in the bell labs empire on a pdp-7 machine which was found unused on the floor ready to be discarded.
It might seem ridiculous to some of us that someone gets sued for creating a hideous web page. I check out this web portal and it is in fact hideous. The suit may be justified in this case if a business agreement was made or money changed hands for the development of this web site. Unless this page was created by razorfish as a gift or a favor, the company that entered into the agreement may well be justified in brining this suit. 1. if razorfish was paid to create a site and given certain guidelines for its content, it could be liable for breach of contract. 2. if as part of a special offer where creation of a viable e-commerce source was based on some other service agreement. If the service provider offers such a service, even if it is an added incentive or special offer to use such a service, the provider must provide those services in good faith. Now aesthetics is subjective at best and a difficult subject to judge when you are unfamiliar with the original agreement. The good and services offered must have tenable value. If the value of such a service is 5 minutes of html programming, was the service done in good faith. Was it conducive with the original agreement between the provider and the customer. Based on the agreement which is unknown, is the provider liable for services not performed? that is based ont he agreement. Personally, if I had made an agreement with anyone knowing that the invesment i made procured me 5 minutes of development time from a web developer for the production of what might be a source of income, I would expect to be shot.. or at least about the head with a wiffle ball bat repeatedly. just my 40Lira
The problem with this shootout was that it was not at all representative of the strengths and weaknesses of either system. It was more of a comparison to see which system more closely matched the sought after functionality of windows. Every argument seemed bogus.
Becky couldnt contain her childish"my father is bigger than your father attitude and made some rather nonsensical statements. "The Mac has offered USB support from day one." Day 1 would be when?? the coming of Christ? some time in the early 80's or at the inception of the IMac sometime within the last 2 years. Seems like history is a bit vague here. How could i have missed that usb adapter on the Mac+ or the MacII, Any 680X0 Mac. How about the first 4 years of Power Macs. they all had USB too. As far as you know.
In fact, the Mac OS had built-in USB support before Windows, just as Apple pioneered 3.5-inch floppies, the mouse, local area networking, CD-ROMs, and FireWire. They invented Cdroms, local area networks and floppy drives? wow.. so thats where the mouse came from. And all this time I was sure that they had taken it from xerox just like everyone else.
Rex needs to come up with a more original argument that using "Linux, on the other hand, works with all the cheap PC hardware and peripherals out there. Try buying a new Mac for $400--can't be done." who cares!. I dont use linux because its cheap. I might have tried it because it was cheap way back when, but do you think I would still be using it if the price was the only noteworthy point. Get a job!
In addition to that, its useless to use that argument "Well we dont have it now, but we will very soon." and "Our market share is increasing faster than yours" if you want to win an argument.
I could go on for days.. but since I have more sense than that and more respect I wont.
The Comparisons: They caught that the MacOS was more polished and in this category, it would most certainly win against the current incarnation of X11.
Unfortunately there were many things that were not mentioned about the lack of useability on the system nor the actual strengths of Corel Linux. now Corel may promote itself as an easy alternative to a full blown unix system.
There is no place where they talk about the power of linux as a server. They dont mention its processing power nor its multiprocessing power. Joe Schmoe might not be able to tell the difference, but this group is attempting to compare apples to oranges. Becky blatantly points out the benefits of being prevented from running services on your machine. "And if you want to get technical, the Mac OS is inherently better protected from hacker and virus attacks than either Linux or Windows, partly because most malicious code is written for Unix, and partly because the Mac doesn't allow many network services (such as FTP), which have to be blocked by a firewall or turned off in other OSs.". yes Becky, I suppose that is a bit technical for you. Call us in 2010 when you get your high school diploma. Rex doesnt have the sense to point out having the ability to limit your services is nice, but being limited as a competent user the ability to use simple network based services ?
What kind of advocates are these that cant even make logical arguments in favor of thier chosen platform.
Since your pages are personal, you're not obliged to make anyone like them, but personally I can't see the point of deliberately publishing something in a way that puts potential readers off. I know I reach straight for the "back" button when I see those cardinal sins.
Regardless of the content of a web page, there is never any creative obligation to anyone not directly involed.
Just as with any speech or declaration, you are not obligated to like it or recieve it favorably. Each document has certain characteristics. 1. It is designed by the owner to express something 2. It is either designed for a specific audience or a non-specific audience. 3. Artistic style may or may not play a part in the design of a document.
Pull off Highway 101 at the Bowers Avenue exit and head into the city of Santa Clara. Go west into the heart of the town's digi-zone. Within three blocks you've passed USWeb, Advanced Micro, Applied Materials, and Intel. You've also passed five polluted tracts the state is remediating - including the oh-so-picturesque former home of Magnetics Peripherals, now a fenced-off dirt lot with Freon-laden groundwater - and Intel's Superfund site. Drive a few more blocks and you've gone past two more areas rated "worst of the worst" by the EPA.
This is a very frightening article. Imagine in 20 years when the soil throughout this area is saturated with chemicals.. I wouldnt want to raise my family there. But then, its probably too late for me.. My office window overlooks intel and hwy 101. I can see all of these companies outside of my window. By the time I come down with cancer from the limited exposure, there might be no recourse. I have driven by these places and seen these land monitoring installations and it frightens me more knowing how close I am to them every day.
My original evidence: Read the religous recovery newsgroups. The vast majority of people posting messages suffer from the abuses of _Chrsitians_, not Scientologists.
In the middle ages, dissention of the church could carry heavy penalties and undue torture. In american society, this is no longer the norm with most organized religions. Scientology is the exception here. They still regularly make threats of legal and physical action against those who speak out against Scientology.
Regardless of my position on Scientology, I would take careful consideration in speaking out against them in a public forum (aside from/.) based on thier history.
In case it isnt evident, the point I am making is that many people would rather put up with some harrassment than draw negative attention to themselves from this cult.
I can punch and slander the catholic church, christians, and most other organized religions with near impunity. Scientologists are another beast entirely.
People threatening to leave the church after attaining a level of knowledge I call "Aliens built my society." are threatened with physical violence. Anyone within the church who makes public any religious doctrine will be pursued both legally and personally. As I recall, at least one such incident ended in the murder of the dissenter.
I have been doing research on the digital cameras on the market for some time. All of the camera seem to have one major fault in my eyes. Each and every camera stores images in jpeg. Jpeg is very space efficient, but is a lossy compression scheme which is unuseable to a professional photographer.
Except for one. The Olympus C2500L captures not only in jpeg compressed format allowing for a large number of photos, but is also capable of capturing uncompressed images which are saved in TIF format. It will also capture a small amount of quicktime video. The camera will capture images in resolutions up to 1712x1368 and is easily upgradeable to 96+MB of storage. * SHQ-Tiff for uncompressed 1712 X 1368 pixel images--for true photo quality images
* SHQ-JPEG with low 1:2.3 compression 1712 X 1368 pixel images--for true photo quality images
* HQ-JPEG with low 1:8 compression 1712 X 1368 pixel images--ideal for high quality photo printing
* SQ-JPEG SVGA 1280 X 1024 pixel images--photo-realistic 8 X 10 inch prints from a photo-quality printer or high quality email photos
* SQ-JPEG VGA 640 X 512 pixel images--perfect for Internet use or to email friends and family.
The camera carries a weighty pricetag but for my purposes, there is no alternative. This camera sells for between $1300-$1500US. I often do photo editing/manipulations and uncompressed is the only way to go.
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There was a rumor going around a while back about someone working on a virus that would uninstall windows and install linux for you over the net..
have to admit, ive thought a little too much about how that could be done..
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"Good Times" This seems to resurface ever few years or so inciting people on usenet and irc and generally is a pain in the butt.
If I had investors and backing from some newly freed musical acts, here is what i would do.
I would start a label strictly based on internet demand and distribution. This is obviously the wave of the future and i dont see any way around it.
In order to sign talent, I could negotiate a contract whereby the musician would recieve in the realm of 80% of the profits of the sales of the music.
a small internet based company could easily make do with a couple million dollars a month. 20% of just a few big name acts could bring in at least this much.
Distribution would be simple. customers would navigate the site with the ability to listen to lower quality version of these new songs in say (mp3 format) for example.
customers would them choose specific songs and purchase these songs individually or as part of a group and purchase these for a small fee.. I realize this sounds similar to pre-existing markets, but its model does not deal with the current breed of money grubbing middlemen.
after selections are made and songs are purchase, the user is shipped a CD/DVD of the selected music in either red book audio format or mp3.
the musician is happy because he/she will make far more profit from the sale of singles/albums and can also contribute to the distribution process.
And I can be happy with my paltry sum of a few million dollars a year.
then the music industry can be a kinder/friendlier place where the real creators are compensated more fairly.
The drawbacks here are that with a lower budget as part of the label, wining and dining acts to convince them to sign would not be possible.
The musicians be more responsible for thier finances and thier future.
Ill be watching and waiting as someone of means pilfers this idea makes bucks. just email me and Ill send you my address for you to start sending me the money.
$2500 is a drop in the bucket here. Every time these guys are caught, they should be forced to pay $250,000. Fair warning.. and this should hopefully limit thae amount of abuse that is going on.
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if it wasnt for you meddling kids!
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Starting to download it when only a few hundred thousand people knew about it... at 4k/s was painful but bearable. Start the download, leave and come back to find the slashdot announcement and two broken ftp connections! redhats site (mirrors didnt have it yesterday) is basically
bah! slashdot! i would have gotten away with it if it wasnt for you crazy kids!
They already tried this.
It was called CDE ( common desktop environment )
maybe you remember it.. sun used to use it until they caught on that if you use a commercial-only available window manager, that open source developers are less likely to write for it.
Last i checked wasnt sun moving to KDE?
I like the idea on person had.. to make a barebones distro where the Xserver/Gui model was built into the kernel similar to BeOS and the system automagically booted up to a nice simple graphical shell. One that you could easily build on.
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even after cancelling your account, you may often find they "forget" to stop charging you.
in my mind this happens too often to be a coincidence.
be sure to check your statements for at least the next year to make sure they dont decide to sign you up again automatically or to continue your service with information they wont be able to find when you call to dispute the charges.
good luck.
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good for them.
Im sure the manufacturers of these p2p softwares that prefer to spy on thier customers or make it a mandatory defect in thier product will surely lash back with the same force that the media companies have done over sharing of thier content.
I may be in the minority, but regardless of the security and method for providing spyware and adware programs, but i will always opt out of any program that includes any such feature.
There will always be an option that does not require a user to install spyware.. as long as there are watchdog groups to keep us informed of these little unhyped "features".
LW
ive been pretty picky about the new music i buy for quite a while now. If this signals a trend tht will continue, I will stop buying cd's altogether.
There will always be someone who will be ble to get past the protection and rip the music to mp3.
I dont condone piracy, but I will not be mandated by any company where and when i can listen to my music.
For any of you record exec types,
please note. the more ways you find to limit the usability of music media, the more honest non-pirate consumers will switch over to using less than reputable sources.
so before you stat blaming the general population on your financial worries, just remember that you are part of the problem.
LW
The drop in sales also seems to coincide with the slump in the economy.
How about them apples.
Im pretty sure that napster and other file sharingb programs had some affect on album sales in the past 2 years..
but lets give credit where credit is due..
if napster is to blame for all the music industries problems, then all my friends in the technology sector who were laid off this year and last should also be able to blame napster..
come on.. get soem sense people.
-LW
If electricity comes from electrons... does that mean that morality comes from morons?
the author poses an interesting question. The question in my mind is.. should new users be taught to interact witht he system as an expert user would or using advances in interface technology, teach users only what they need to know to survive in a linux environment.
some would argue that it is better to make sure users understand the underlyuing technology they are dealing with.. and the ability to understand the function at the lower levels.. at least as low as the filesystem for configuration.
does teching them the "right" way noe prevent them from coming back eveyr 10 minutes to troubleshoot things that come up.
should new users or those not wanting to delve too deeply int he system, be guided via graphical systems and interface designed to make performing these operations simpler. will that be all the user ever needs..
very possibly.
I believe the answer to this is depending on the circumstences. I think tht trying to fice a windows user back to a command line is a sure fire way to confuse the poor sod. But i dont think that it is an excuse. those same graphical interface may disappear in the future or take different shape and having to rely that those willalways be there is also a sure sign of failure..
I think learning the graphical interface configuration tools is fine.. justr as once the user is somewhat comnfortable working with the system, they should learn to do things the "right" way..
no sense in scaring them when they are still at that stage where thier level of udnerstanding of the technology may not allow them to completely grasp more advanced concepts.
you must start somewhere..
if you feel differently.. just keep in mind that trigonometry or calculus wasnt your first math class.. after years of arithmatic and algebra, you were at the point where calculus should make sense.
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The problem with snort and almost all other IDS systems is pattern matching.
In other words, every packet that enters the system (detection area, based on whether the detection is network based or host based).
The cause and effect is two fold. A packet with a string contained therein may be detected falsely as an attack can be masked by using unicode or shell code, etc.
the second effect is that since each packet or stream is matched against every pattern in the database, is that the engine is easily bogged down and with some simple techniques, can be made to drop packets in order to not kill itself off.
There is no perfect solution for this that I know of..
however, there are more efficient ways to handle both these problems.
Packet and Stream disassembly can be used to reduce the amount of overhead and greatly reduce the anmount of mis-detections (both false positive and false negative).
First, breaking down the stream to determine protocol, source, destination, payload, etc..
once a stream is broken up, analyzing it for content is much simpler and quicker becuase you dont have to check all the unklreated traffic against all the signatures in the database.. only those which pertain to the specific protocol in use, if any matching is necessary at all.
Now.. this technique can be done right and be done very wrong. do it wrong and youll spend much more time disassembling things and using more resources than the pattern matching engines.
Doing it right means quickly limiting the amount of matching that needs to be done and reducing overhead even in high traffic situations.
Of course, as with any method, there are weaknesses. This method can reduce cpu and memory requirements, increase accuracy and reduce false negatives and false positives.
As another colleague pointed out, IDS is an early warning system. In any of its incarnations, its nearly innefective without escalation and constant monitoring.
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absolutely.. check ebay.. IBM AT style ps/2 keyboards. you can get them very cheap. I like to have a good stock of them around and use them on all my desktop systems. nice anc clicky.. never wear out.. will withstand almost any abuse.. Plastic and metal.. very heavy.. very durable.
no wonder you go through so many keyboards.. those $10 keyboards are the worst made pieces of garbage you can get. Theya re not designed to suffer any misuse thus the ridiculous pricetag. I recommend findin a nice northgate keyboard.. the company is no longer in business but the keyboards are durable and comfortable. Almost as durable as the original IBM AT style keyboards.. the IBM AT style ps/2 keyboards are the most durable, best built keyboard you will find.. I personally have collected a few of these are they are no longer manufactured.. each one, at least 5 year old or older works perfectly.. Now mind you, i am rather nice to my keyboards.. dont spill stuff in them and I clean them out once in a while.. but the keyboards never miss a key. IF you spill something on these keyboards, you may not even notice.. If you make a real mess.. you can just hose down the keyboard with water.. yes.. you can even put them in the shower.. Just make sure to let them completely dry out before trying to plug them back in. You can probably pick a handful of them on ebay for under $20 on ebay.. A friend of mine found a stock of 10 of these for that amount and one will outlast all the other keyboards you have ever used. These things are heavy.. metal parts and strong tactile feedback. I will never get rid of these keyboards.. It just goes to show that IBM CAN make a product that will outlast all its competitors. Since they are no longer made, I always want to make sure I never run out. Be cautioned though.. these are the click type keyboards that were a bit more popular in the "80's" and make a fair amount of noise when used.. Thankfully, that is my preference. Good luck and good keyboarding...
the company spent thier money getting a license so they could create a player that they couldnt afford a $2 hooker to program one.
whether its windows/linux/whatever, should i hav the right to use a good piece of software of watch my movies ?
As multics was a large bloated behemoth, unix (eunuchs) was intended for smaller networks (at the time)
I think that nobody knew how much of an impact unix would have when it was being initially being developed in a forgotten lab in the bell labs empire on a pdp-7 machine which was found unused on the floor ready to be discarded.
It might seem ridiculous to some of us that someone gets sued for creating a hideous web page. I check out this web portal and it is in fact hideous. The suit may be justified in this case if a business agreement was made or money changed hands for the development of this web site. Unless this page was created by razorfish as a gift or a favor, the company that entered into the agreement may well be justified in brining this suit. 1. if razorfish was paid to create a site and given certain guidelines for its content, it could be liable for breach of contract. 2. if as part of a special offer where creation of a viable e-commerce source was based on some other service agreement. If the service provider offers such a service, even if it is an added incentive or special offer to use such a service, the provider must provide those services in good faith. Now aesthetics is subjective at best and a difficult subject to judge when you are unfamiliar with the original agreement. The good and services offered must have tenable value. If the value of such a service is 5 minutes of html programming, was the service done in good faith. Was it conducive with the original agreement between the provider and the customer. Based on the agreement which is unknown, is the provider liable for services not performed? that is based ont he agreement. Personally, if I had made an agreement with anyone knowing that the invesment i made procured me 5 minutes of development time from a web developer for the production of what might be a source of income, I would expect to be shot.. or at least about the head with a wiffle ball bat repeatedly. just my 40Lira
Becky couldnt contain her childish"my father is bigger than your father attitude and made some rather nonsensical statements.
"The Mac has offered USB support from day one."
Day 1 would be when?? the coming of Christ? some time in the early 80's or at the inception of the IMac sometime within the last 2 years. Seems like history is a bit vague here. How could i have missed that usb adapter on the Mac+ or the MacII, Any 680X0 Mac. How about the first 4 years of Power Macs. they all had USB too. As far as you know.
In fact, the Mac OS had built-in USB support before Windows, just as Apple pioneered 3.5-inch floppies, the mouse, local area networking, CD-ROMs, and FireWire.
They invented Cdroms, local area networks and floppy drives? wow.. so thats where the mouse came from. And all this time I was sure that they had taken it from xerox just like everyone else.
Rex needs to come up with a more original argument that using "Linux, on the other hand, works with all the cheap PC hardware and peripherals out there. Try buying a new Mac for $400--can't be done."
who cares!. I dont use linux because its cheap. I might have tried it because it was cheap way back when, but do you think I would still be using it if the price was the only noteworthy point. Get a job!
In addition to that, its useless to use that argument "Well we dont have it now, but we will very soon." and "Our market share is increasing faster than yours" if you want to win an argument.
I could go on for days.. but since I have more sense than that and more respect I wont.
The Comparisons: They caught that the MacOS was more polished and in this category, it would most certainly win against the current incarnation of X11.
Unfortunately there were many things that were not mentioned about the lack of useability on the system nor the actual strengths of Corel Linux. now Corel may promote itself as an easy alternative to a full blown unix system.
There is no place where they talk about the power of linux as a server. They dont mention its processing power nor its multiprocessing power.
Joe Schmoe might not be able to tell the difference, but this group is attempting to compare apples to oranges.
Becky blatantly points out the benefits of being prevented from running services on your machine. "And if you want to get technical, the Mac OS is inherently better protected from hacker and virus attacks than either Linux or Windows, partly because most malicious code is written for Unix, and partly because the Mac doesn't allow many network services (such as FTP), which have to be blocked by a firewall or turned off in other OSs.". yes Becky, I suppose that is a bit technical for you. Call us in 2010 when you get your high school diploma. Rex doesnt have the sense to point out having the ability to limit your services is nice, but being limited as a competent user the ability to use simple network based services ?
What kind of advocates are these that cant even make logical arguments in favor of thier chosen platform.
LW.
Regardless of the content of a web page, there is never any creative obligation to anyone not directly involed.
Just as with any speech or declaration, you are not obligated to like it or recieve it favorably. Each document has certain characteristics.
1. It is designed by the owner to express something
2. It is either designed for a specific audience or a non-specific audience.
3. Artistic style may or may not play a part in the design of a document.
LW
This is a very frightening article. Imagine in 20 years when the soil throughout this area is saturated with chemicals.. I wouldnt want to raise my family there.
But then, its probably too late for me.. My office window overlooks intel and hwy 101. I can see all of these companies outside of my window.
By the time I come down with cancer from the limited exposure, there might be no recourse. I have driven by these places and seen these land monitoring installations and it frightens me more knowing how close I am to them every day.
LW
In the middle ages, dissention of the church could carry heavy penalties and undue torture. In american society, this is no longer the norm with most organized religions.
Scientology is the exception here. They still regularly make threats of legal and physical action against those who speak out against Scientology.
Regardless of my position on Scientology, I would take careful consideration in speaking out against them in a public forum (aside from /.) based on thier history.
In case it isnt evident, the point I am making is that many people would rather put up with some harrassment than draw negative attention to themselves from this cult.
I can punch and slander the catholic church, christians, and most other organized religions with near impunity. Scientologists are another beast entirely.
People threatening to leave the church after attaining a level of knowledge I call "Aliens built my society." are threatened with physical violence. Anyone within the church who makes public any religious doctrine will be pursued both legally and personally. As I recall, at least one such incident ended in the murder of the dissenter.
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develop you rchildren analytical mind and 9 time out of 10.. they will figure out the right answer on thier own.
the greatest danger are those who sound sincere and logical, but who push an agenda that does not follow your own beliefs.
LW
Each and every camera stores images in jpeg. Jpeg is very space efficient, but is a lossy compression scheme which is unuseable to a professional photographer.
Except for one.
The Olympus C2500L captures not only in jpeg compressed format allowing for a large number of photos, but is also capable of capturing uncompressed images which are saved in TIF format. It will also capture a small amount of quicktime video.
The camera will capture images in resolutions up to 1712x1368 and is easily upgradeable to 96+MB of storage.
* SHQ-Tiff for uncompressed 1712 X 1368 pixel images--for true photo quality images
* SHQ-JPEG with low 1:2.3 compression 1712 X 1368 pixel images--for true photo quality images
* HQ-JPEG with low 1:8 compression 1712 X 1368 pixel images--ideal for high quality photo printing
* SQ-JPEG SVGA 1280 X 1024 pixel images--photo-realistic 8 X 10 inch prints from a photo-quality printer or high quality email photos
* SQ-JPEG VGA 640 X 512 pixel images--perfect for Internet use or to email friends and family.
The camera carries a weighty pricetag but for my purposes, there is no alternative. This camera sells for between $1300-$1500US. I often do photo editing/manipulations and uncompressed is the only way to go.
LW
have to admit, ive thought a little too much about how that could be done..
LW
"Good Times"
This seems to resurface ever few years or so inciting people on usenet and irc and generally is a pain in the butt.
I know its an old cliche:
" 'Government Intelligence' is a contradiction in terms. "
I would start a label strictly based on internet demand and distribution. This is obviously the wave of the future and i dont see any way around it.
In order to sign talent, I could negotiate a contract whereby the musician would recieve in the realm of 80% of the profits of the sales of the music.
a small internet based company could easily make do with a couple million dollars a month. 20% of just a few big name acts could bring in at least this much.
Distribution would be simple. customers would navigate the site with the ability to listen to lower quality version of these new songs in say (mp3 format) for example.
customers would them choose specific songs and purchase these songs individually or as part of a group and purchase these for a small fee.. I realize this sounds similar to pre-existing markets, but its model does not deal with the current breed of money grubbing middlemen.
after selections are made and songs are purchase, the user is shipped a CD/DVD of the selected music in either red book audio format or mp3.
the musician is happy because he/she will make far more profit from the sale of singles/albums and can also contribute to the distribution process.
And I can be happy with my paltry sum of a few million dollars a year.
then the music industry can be a kinder/friendlier place where the real creators are compensated more fairly.
The drawbacks here are that with a lower budget as part of the label, wining and dining acts to convince them to sign would not be possible.
The musicians be more responsible for thier finances and thier future.
Ill be watching and waiting as someone of means pilfers this idea makes bucks. just email me and Ill send you my address for you to start sending me the money.
LW
LW